The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

Law never is, but is always about to be.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

What if there were health food stores on every corner in the hood, instead of liquor stores!?

If you feel guilty about not "playing nice," then you could easily alleviate your guilt by playing nice.

True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.

Our founders did not write that 'We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal.'

Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.

The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.

The hearts of the great can be changed.

I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.

A million tomorrows shall all pass away 'ere I forget all the joy that is mine, today.

You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.